SPACE IS INFINITE, can we really comprehend it?

Question

can we really comprehend it?

i mean sure it is easy to say it..see
SPACE IS INFINITE

but can you really grasp the concept that it never actually ends. its not a sphere where you can keep going in circles forever, i mean it streches forever in every direction. i mean it literally streches forever. its mind boggling to think that it NEVER ends. i mean at times you think that the earth is there, and it ends, just like a road, a city, a county, a state, a country everything, it just ends. yet in reality nothing ever has to end. because you will never run out of space, there is always more, even billions or trillions of years from now there will be more space, and billions or trillions of years from then, the space will never run out, because it never ends.

Answer 1

no proof of that yet.
some claim its shrinking
some claim its shrinking then expanding,
some claim its still expanding
(it might become infinite eventually, but thats like chasing a ghost I think)

I'm still trying to wrap my head around how big of a number 1.0 x 10 to the 50th is

its so big billions of millions can fit into it if not 1000000x more

Answer 2

I'm thinking this is more for the psychology category, because of the way you phrased the question.

Since nothing in this world is constant (even a piece of grass blowing in the wind will never return to its starting position), I don't think humans can ever understand the concept of reality as a whole.

Less than 300 years ago, people were told that the Earth was flat; less than 200 years ago, people were told that humans could never be able to fly; less than 100 years ago, people were told that we could never reach the stars; less than 10 years ago, people were told that the first extra-solar planet had been discovered; less than 2 years ago, people were told that Pluto is not technically a real planet, but a dwarf planet.

The point, is that anything we learn today will be different than what people will be learning in schools 100 years from now. Text books are constantly being rewritten, science fiction books and movies from the 70s are now proven an impossibility (star wars' faster-than-light drive, for instance.)

Answer 3

It may seem infinite in that we will not be able to explore beyond our galaxy within our lifetime simply because we have not developed a means to travel fast enough. But it is not. I think the popular thought is that the universe is actually expanding and logically is it possible for something that is infinite to increase? Increase into what? Infinite implies something without end. So I comprehend that space is infinite in as much as I grasp the idea of intelligent design - both just beliefs.

Answer 4

The space to which you refer is within our universe. Some models define that space as limited, with other environments outside it.
Please consider the example of your walking through a room, and there is an infrared laser detecting movement at a certain location. You walk through the beam and a mechanism opens a door in response to the beam's detector system. To your perception, the laser beam does not exist, but it is right under your nose & not some many parsecs away. There is at least one universe which shares the galaxy with us, but its features are moving or vibrating faster than the speed of light, so we cannot directly observe them. We see them indirectly as starlight.

Answer 5

Infinity is daunting. How about a one sided model of the universe? A Moebius Strip ... (strip of paper about an inch wide and about 8 inches long given a half twist and taped or glued together at the ends).

It gives a concept of infinity with limits....

Answer 6

sure infinite is...infinite...

its not rocket science...oh wait...maybe it could be...

Answer 7

Relax, pour a good stiff drink, have a couple hits off the bong, cuddle up with your siginificant other, and chill. It isn't as if little, tiny, insignigicant, speck of nothing compared to the rest of creation **YOU** is gonna do anything to change any of that.

Just grasp the magnitude, go with the flow, cruise over to any of the NASA Hubble sites, and groove on the light show ☺

Doug

Answer 8

area is finite. It had to start and it will ought to end. Infinity is a mathematical concept and could't be utilized to an incident. in case you divide an inch or a 2nd adequate situations it is going to at last circulate out of existence. we live in a quantum universe and if it became into the rest it does not be here.

Answer 9

The concept of comprehending infinity is infinitely as difficult as comprehending nothing

Answer 10

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

-A. Einstein